Do You Still Love Me? Chapter Five
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Chapter Five: Pool Party Part One
"Vegeta!" Gohan whined. "I really can't fight."
"Why not? Oh yeah, I forgot, you have to keep the ladies impressed."
"Yeah…that's sorta what I was thinking. I mean, I can't go to the party all bloody and stuff. Can't I just like do exercises?"
"Women do exercises…" Vegeta started his speech.
Oh boy…not his women speech again! Gohan thought.
Vegeta adjusted the gravity machine to 200 times. They didn't need too much gravity on them.
"But—"
Suddenly, Vegeta threw an energy blast at Gohan. Gohan was barely able to dodge the blow.
"Whoa, Vegeta—"
Vegeta threw more and more blasts. One eventually hit Gohan in the shoulder.
"Ok, Vegeta, we've had enough, haven't we?"
"You haven't even tried yet. I'm disgusted that all you have on your mind is that stupid party. You don't realize that if you don't get your act together, I'm going to go over to that place and blast it away."
"You're kidding, Vegeta, but you say it with such a straight face!"
Vegeta growled. "Don't be a fool."
Gohan smiled. "Give me a real fight then."
That's more like it…
Soon they fought faster and faster. Eventually Vegeta had a couple of scratches on him, but Gohan was a mess.
"You really are pitiful," Vegeta said. "You've grown so weak these past seven years without any training."
Gohan looked at his watch. "AH! I'm late!" Suddenly Vegeta threw another blast and blew up his watch.
"Keep fighting, or I'll hunt you down."
Gohan cringed at the thought. Yikes, Vegeta chasing me down. Haha, like a car chase! He started to laugh.
"What's so funny?"
"Haha—I was just imagining you—hah—in a car cha—"
Vegeta charged at him.
"Sorry!"
Vegeta finally found a way to get Gohan to fight.
"You know why she left you?" Vegeta asked.
Gohan was confused. "What?" How does he know about Videl?
"It's because you're not good enough for her."
"That's not true!" Sweat rolled down his forehead.
"That's why she's with—"
Angrily, Gohan charged at Vegeta.
After another half an hour of fighting, they finally stopped. Gohan fell down exhausted. Now what am I going to do? I can't go to the party all bruised! Especially since it's a pool party!
Vegeta walked over to him and pulled out a bag. Almost smiling, he threw Gohan a sensu bean.
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"Goten! Quit moving!" Trunks hissed as he continued spying.
"But Trunks! Why do I have to be on the bottom?"
"Because I know what's going on!"
"But I can't see anything from down here!"
Trunks sighed. "Then why don't you poke out some eye holes?"
This has got to be my best idea yet! Trunks thought triumphantly. This is going to be plan B2. If this doesn't work, I always have plan B3!
"Everything all right, Goten?"
"Yup! Let's go!" Goten unexpectedly started to walk.
"Whoa—whoa," said Trunks, wobbling. "Not yet! We have to wait for everyone to get there or at least the required ones: Gohan, Videl, Hikaze, and Sharpner. Be patient."
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One by one, all the guests to Videl's pool party had arrived—all except Gohan. Had he decided not to go? Nah, Videl decided, he would surely call if he couldn't come. Or would he be too nervous?
Erasa walked over to Videl. "So, Gohan's not here yet."
Videl nodded nervously. She had made Erasa promise not to say anything about the phone call they had the previous night.
"What are you so worried about? Just have fun, Videl! Everything's going to be fine!"
"Erasa…I'm just worried about the whole breaking-up-with-Sharpner thing. I don't want to hurt his feelings or anything. He hasn't done anything wrong—other than being himself—but nothing's really been going on between us. It's like I'm using him—like he's just a red herring—and that's really not right, so…"
"VIDEL!" said Sharpner waving as raced to sit next to her.
"Tell him now," whispered Erasa.
Videl knew she was right. There wasn't a better time. Then she would tell Gohan that she had broken up with Sharpner and make things up between the two of them.
"Sharpner…"
"What is it, sweety-pie?"
Erasa stifled a laugh, and Videl winced. This was going to be hard for him to take.
"You see—Sharpner—"
"Don't worry, you can still call me Sharpie-boy, remember?" Sharpener gazed at her dreamily.
"No, that was a joke, as in I was just kidding, ok? You see Sharpner, there are just some things that aren't working out—"
Videl stopped. Behind Sharpner stood a tall man (with purple hair) and two eyes that were located where—well, Videl didn't even want to think about that. The "man" wore a white suit and a black hat and necktie.
"I am sorry," Trunks said with a false French accent, "sir," which was referring to Sharpner, "that I have to tell you to move out of the area."
"No, dudeth, I stayeth hereth!" Sharpner pointed to the seat he was sitting in.
"That's Appostrophe, not French!" Erasa whispered.
"NO! Your arse goes there!" Trunks said (with a Napolean Dynamite voice) as he pointed to the pool.
"Look, dude, I don't know what your problem is—"
Trunks threw Sharpner out toward the pool. The two girls stared wide-eyed. "Ok! I'm going!"
"Videl…" said Erasa. "We shouldn't stay here."
"Videl," said Trunks. "We need to talk."
Erasa frowned. "Just exactly how many boyfriends do you have?" she demanded.
"Boyfriend? What are you talking about? He's only seven—" Trunks covered her mouth.
"Teen," he said sexily. "Seventeen."
Erasa giggled at his voice. "He sounds pretty hot…"
"Ok, so what did you want to talk about?"
"Oh, that's a—private matter."
Videl stood up and walked to the bushes. "What do you want?" she hissed. "You better not mess up everything!"
"Videl, don't worry. Gohan's umm…having a bit of a dilemma."
"WHAT? Trunks! Quit messing things up!" Videl was angry.
"I promise I didn't do anything."
"THEN WHAT'S WRONG?"
Trunks got off of Goten and began to walk away.
"W—wait! Trunks! Where are you going?"
Trunks stopped and turned around. "Well, if you'd quit yelling, maybe I'd actually want to stay around."
"Oh. I'm sorry."
"…" Trunks made no reply.
"…so where's Gohan?" Videl asked.
"Gohan's training," Goten announced.
"What? Training for what?" Videl thought of a crazy idea. "For what? The world martial arts competition? Hah!"
"No, actually he's training for my dad," Trunks replied.
"WHAT?"
"He's training for my dad. He was planning on coming ear—"
Goten cut him off. "Hey, Trunks! We have to go now! Bye!" He and Trunks darted into a bush.
Before Videl could reply, Gohan appeared. "Sorry, I'm late, Videl. I was—uh—doing some stuff."
"Like what? Training?"
"Yea—what? Training for what?"
Videl thought about it. "Training for someone maybe."
Well, she's got a point there. Gohan thought. It was Vegeta that made me.
"Uh—no—I was simply—training… …my mind!"
She eyed him suspiciously. "Your mind? Gohan, you cease to amaze me."
He chuckled. "Yeah. Well, anyways, let's have some fun now at the—uh—party—I mean—pool."
Videl smiled brightly at him. "Good idea!"
Walking to the pool, Videl thought, I will find out what he's hiding from me.
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"Whew, that was a close one," said Trunks.
"Yup."
The two kids slumped down against a tree.
After a while, Goten finally spoke. "I'm hungry."
"Me too," Trunks admitted.
"Yeah? So… I saw that Hikaze girl."
"And?"
Goten shrugged. "I don't know, but I think I recognize her from somewhere or something."
"Really? Hm…that's strange."
"Yeah. Now that I think of it, don't we have to get back to our training?"
Trunks's eyes lit up. "What a great idea! Hah! Hey, Goten, you can still turn super saiyan, right?"
"Yeah, why?"
Trunks rubbed his hands. "You're going to turn super saiyan and distract Gohan, while I go embarrass the Hikaze girl. You just gotta stay hidden well. Don't let Gohan actually see you."
"Ok…"
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"Videl!" Erasa exclaimed. "I have some wonderful news for you!"
"What?"
"Come here! Sorry, Gohan, it's a girl thing."
Gohan smiled. "Sure, it's fine with me."
Erasa pulled her over.
"What is it?"
"Look in the Jacuzzi."
Videl looked. "It's—Sharpner and Hikaze!"
"Yeah, I know, she's like all over him!" Erasa grimaced.
"Do you still want to go out with him?"
"Videl!" Erasa exclaimed. "Now's the perfect time to break up with him!"
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